Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Sugawara on teh 360 Marketplace!

Random goodness: Found a fascinating discovery while trolling the XBOX 360's movie library (which is sub par at the moment). I didn't think I was going to be Woo'eD or WoW'd. The last actor or genre I figured to stumble on was the ol' favorite "yakuza eiga". By the grace of Santan, I stumbled onto Bunta Sugawara's YE romp "THE TATTOOED HITMAN", directed by YE veteran Kosaku Yamashita (Red Peony, Gokudo, Bakuichi, Kyodai Jingi...). I've seen many American posters etc. of the flick, but i've never actually seen the film itself. You can check out a trailer on the xbox 360's marketplace and the film can be downloaded for 200 MS points (which roughly comes out to 4 bills). Keep in mind, this isn't some unedited original Japanese version of the film. It is dubbed (atrocious!) and prolly cut to shit. Like I said, I haven't seen it, but I'm a pig in shit for the fact that I get the opportunity to. Also, if you download any movie from the marketplace you only have it for 2 weeks, and once you start to play it, i believe you only have it for 24hrs. Weak, but it's better than nothing. Here's the IMDB info on the flick:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0201344/


1 comments:

rupan777 said...

Patrick Macias reviewed this film of Bud (check the credits!) Sugawara in his Tokyoscope book.